Getting Gay With Kids 
Posted on 02/09/2024 5:09:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Usher's performance during this week's Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas extends the NFL's streak of halftime shows without a headlining rock act to 14.
Chiefs starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes was still a freshman in high school when the Who concluded their set with "Won't Get Fooled Again" in 2010 at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. He's now attempting to claim his third Super Bowl crown, and there hasn't been a top-billed rock act since.
Ironically, rock basically ruled halftime celebrations as the 21st century dawned. Aerosmith kicked things off in 2001 in Tampa for Super Bowl XXXV. U2 took the stage a year later in New Orleans for Super Bowl XXXVI. Sting was a special guest at 2003's XXXVII halftime in San Diego.
Paul McCartney then kicked off six straight rock-focused halftime performances in 2005 at Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville. The Rolling Stones took over in 2006 at XL in Detroit, followed by Prince (2007's XLI in Miami), Tom Petty (2008's XLII in Miami), Bruce Springsteen (2009's XLIII in Tampa) and the Who.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers served as non-headlining guests at Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 at East Rutherford, New Jersey, but then found themselves embroiled in controversy over whether they actually played their instruments. By then, Mahomes was finally set to leave high school for the NFL Draft. Super Bowl organizers have since turned to R&B, pop and hip-hop performers.
Could rock make a triumphant return? No rock star has ever repeated as a Super Bowl halftime performer, but plenty of worthy candidates remain. Among those who've never played are Guns N' Roses, Billy Joel, Foo Fighters, Elton John, Eagles, Pearl Jam, Bon Jovi and Metallica.
Still, there are precious few stragglers who are big enough to command worldwide attention – and that's very much an issue for the NFL. These acts also have to spark internationally. As much as Americans love football, the Super Bowl is very big business elsewhere too. Nielsen reports hundreds of millions of viewers for these games, with more than 50 million coming from outside the U.S.
Prince and Tom Petty playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a performance for the ages.
More than chills…..
John Kay is still active, supposedly. The band seems to have stopped in 2018
Getting Gay With Kids
Actually Trey and Matt would do a great halftime show, especially “Gay Fish”.
I’m trying to think of a current rock band with members under 65 years old that could command a Superbowl audience. I can’t think of one with original members. So... Oldsters it is.
A guitar hero halftime! Starring Eric Clapton, Angus Young, Joe Walsh, Jimmie Paige, Keith Richards and Billy Gibbons. Get a first rate backup band and you are up and running.
I like fish sticks.
Weird Al Yankovic would be great. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
I could watch Stevie twirl that baton all day.
I was hanging out with a relative and his college friends, he told me everybody at his college listens mostly to 80s Alternative music, he was playing the Violent Femmes first album. We had a good time singing along to it in the car.
Saw a Breitbart article about some (c)rapper with a cadence lyric poem invoking sh*t and farts. There’s your high class act for next year’s game.
No sale here.
Maroon 5 = Empty Calories.
“Are blacks the largest superbowl audience?”
More importantly. What is the targeted demographic for Super Bowl advertisers? Who are laying millions for 30 or 60 seconds advert time? White men are, with white women coming in second. Due to white women making many of the decisions on household purchases.
The usual TV onslaught of (brainwashing) advertisements featuring black man with a white woman? These will not be seen during the Superbowl.
The half time show will be showing Taylor dancing in the stands.
I'm still waiting for them to bring back Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
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Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts?
I don’t like hip hop music, but I don’t wish to denigrate those who do. For those people who like hip hop music, “denigrate” means put down.
Heh, I was not a big Stevie Nicks fan after the drugs started really taking their toll, but, there IS something about the way she twirls that baton...
Basically true. They already watch the Super Bowl. Minorities and women are lower numbers. NFL trying to raise the numbers.
Because there are no more rock bands anymore.
Not any under 70 years old anyway.
Hank Williams jr, Monday Night Football
https://youtu.be/llC6zEj6tKo?t=90
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